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My professional self is going to give it a go to start. First, as I have said many times over, the library is not a safe place for immature minds. What part of “open access” and “freedom to read/view” isn’t making sense here? Why do parents and society members think that the library is a perfectly safe place where nothing bad happens and there are no books that are objectionable? I mean, things don’t always go well in libraries.
My professional self also feels that even with the “think of the children!” argument tossed out, and the utterly untrue slander (libel?) in the comments that the library or the librarian somehow aided in the result, the librarian who required law enforcement to get a search warrant before turning over computers to police looking for a missing girl, who was later found murdered by a relative, the library and librarians acted appropriately, according to policy and the law, and that law enforcement needed to get their warrants in order before going to the library if they wanted the material contained therein. The argument that situations triumph warrants, whether young children are involved or not, is an argument for the Patriot Act and Homeland Security’s running roughshod over law for whatever purpose they want. The obverse of that argument, that only people with something to hide should expect privacy on public computers, has the same result - unfettered government snooping into your private digital life. Even if they start at the library, looking for whatever it was you did while you stopped in to get your holds, it’s not too hard (and the infrastructure is already in place) for them to intercept your traffic from private devices and scan that, without a warrant or any knowledge that it’s happening.
Additionally, I’m fairly certain the idea that the police should have a right to search computers in a library without needing a warrant, under the premise that the “public” of access means truly public access - that anyone, regardless of intent, should be able to see your sessions on the computer at the library, is a confusing of the multiple meanings of the word public. Yes, your tax dollars do support this access. If that really meant that anybody could snoop on you while you were using it, would you really use it, knowing that someone, somewhere, was probably watching? What if we posted the checkout records of everyone who had used the library that day, even if we scrubbed names and only put up library barcode numbers? Would you go checking out that book you were interested in on hate crime groups, because you wanted to know if they had recruited someone close to you? What if you were trying to psychoanalyze Pol Pot or the leader of Helter Skelter, to see why they did what they did? All someone would have to see to conclude someone was in favor of their ideas was that they checked a book out on them. This is what we call a “chilling effect” in the biz, and librarians are not fond of them. Without a guarantee of user privacy, there would be no way for anyone to research material that they weren’t prepared to publicly announce to the world their interest in.
I also want to tell the people that commented “The librarian has to live with herself, knowing that the girl would probably be alive if she hadn’t made he police wait for their warrant.” and “Bet that librarian wouldn’t be so rights-positive if it were her kid” to open up a nice can of Shut. The. FUCK. Up. Yes, it’s a tragedy. No, it’s not certain that the police would have been able to save her if they hadn’t had to wait for their warrant (and what were they doing in that time? Twiddling their thumbs?). Trotting out the idea that children trump all things, including the law, will make it supremely easy for the government to squash you and turn you into a terrorist, all in the name of protecting children. Or to intrude their noses in all of your business, just to make sure you’re not doing something that could be harmful to children. Do you really want a nanny over your shoulder ensuring everything you do is child-safe? Or rather, a safe opinion to express in the current political climate?
Oh, and, uh, be careful with the jalepenos. Some of them have salmonella.
Internationally, Russia sends warships to patrol the Arctic again, the dog-catchers of Beijing want to make sure small dogs are the way of the world there, and of much more importance, a Presidential candidate takes a tour of Iraq, and sits down with the Afghanistan president. Oh, and the Secretary of State said Iran wasn't being serious at the potential peace talks over the weekend, just raising the bar for an unprecedented third land war in Asia. Although, if the eventual President has as much trouble with who borders whom, we might end up in Australia, for all I know. Perhaps it would be better for the country to stop fighting land wars in Asia completely.
Domestically, Be afraid, citizens, be very afraid - they're coming in from Europe now. The terrorists will get to you any way they can, so the only sensible solution is to Trust Americans and nobody else... excepting, of course, when they threaten to respond slowly to an emergency call if you don't give them free coffee, or spying on peaceful anti-war and anti-death penalty groups, or treating detainees by wiring their mouths shut and conducting secret treaties to attempt to criminalize the sharing of any copyrighted information, whether for profit or non-profit, it looks like.
A woman's daughter went missing, she did not report it for more than five weeks, and has been lying to investigators about what's going on, also claiming she's been investigating herself, because she believes that people who go to the police about missing persons get hurt. This sounds like a pretty good case of checking for mental stability while also trying to find the missing child. Must be really frustrating to the investigators, though, if the girl’s mother isn’t even telling the truth to them.
Congratulations, President Nelson Mandela is off the terrorist watch list. Of course, the attempt to make political points about Iraq with this failed spectacularly.
A federal appeals court has trashed the FCC fine that accompanied Janet Jackson's quick flash at a Super Bowl halftime... a very long time ago. The glacial pace of the courts, certainly.
In energy matters, while some are blaming drilling opponents for high gas prices, or fawning over the administration's decision to remove its ban on offshore drilling, oothers are proposing a switchover that could be completed in the time it takes to drill new reserves. This sounds reasonable, assuming that you don’t beleive that liberals are deliberately trying to hold the price of gasoline high so they can force America to die economically, with a dash of “they’re also trying to make us abandon God and let in all these abominations!” crackpottery for spice.
In economic matters, "loan originators" in Florida did the same jobs as mortgage brokers, but without a license or a necessary background check, meaning several of them had rather long rap sheets, some of them with loan fraud as their convictions. So there’s turtles all the way down in these mortgage problems, it looks like. Not to mention, despite all the material about how Americans should be able to know and keep their FICO scores in the good range, there's no real way for the Average Joe of knowing what affects your score, and even the hints that appear sometimes aren’t all that great. That’s without credit card companies and other corporations deliberately manipulating your statistics to stick you with fees and charges and higher interest rates. And there’s the pesky problem of all sorts of businesses, big and small, going bankrupt, and the government is borrowing from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to fritter it away fighting several land wars in Asia. You know, stuff that tries very hard to snuff out the middle class to the benefit of the wealthy, and making he income gap even worse.
In the opinion columns, praise for Oklahoma's resolution that the Tenth Amendment is absolute and that the Feds should go back to their Constitutionally-defined powers, dismissal of the arrest warrant for the Sudanese president, more speech about the need to stay the course in Iraq, now more than ever, invoking the GOP's progressive past as a way of trying to make the current candidates look good on civil rights issues, and Senator Obama as a cult leader, as opposed to a candidate, with the potential for problems if he isn't elected in November.
There’s also realization that people didn't spend their stimulus checks where the government hoped they would, and probably won't spend them again on anything other than essentials, going after Bill'O for not being damaging enough to Jesse Jackson, (although, if we really wanted to be mean, we could mention the gaffe of misspelling education on an education segment), and Austin Cline unsure that his satire has been actually satirical, in being over the top enough to be recognized as such, a problem that the New Yorker cover failed on because a) the inherent ambiguity of satire makes interpretation context-dependent, and b) the New Yorker cover failed to provide that context, instead relying on its reputation as a left-wing bastion to get people to assume it was satirical.
Science and technology brings forward some very interesting stuff: a storm water system designed to handle Japan's typhoons and big storms, and pictures of the moon transiting Earth from 50 million kilometers away. Welcome to the blue dot, Sol-3. There’s also some inquiry to the validity of DNA testing, creating man-machine soldier hybrids (just what you need to quell mass riots and keep the population under control), and the science museum in Minnesota will be closing so that more Republican convention events can be hosted there.
Last for tonight, a pizza joint clerk knew that her parents were going to rob somewhere... imagine her surprise when the parents came to rob her store. The robbery failed, as we saw on Mr. Olbermann’s show, because the dad got decked by the other clerk.
On a more hopeful note, WikiSky, showing the stars above us all, even when Sol makes it impossible to see them. And for $160, you too can make your own self-insert episodes of Robot Chicken.
Yeah. So, the whole bed thing sounds good.
My professional self also feels that even with the “think of the children!” argument tossed out, and the utterly untrue slander (libel?) in the comments that the library or the librarian somehow aided in the result, the librarian who required law enforcement to get a search warrant before turning over computers to police looking for a missing girl, who was later found murdered by a relative, the library and librarians acted appropriately, according to policy and the law, and that law enforcement needed to get their warrants in order before going to the library if they wanted the material contained therein. The argument that situations triumph warrants, whether young children are involved or not, is an argument for the Patriot Act and Homeland Security’s running roughshod over law for whatever purpose they want. The obverse of that argument, that only people with something to hide should expect privacy on public computers, has the same result - unfettered government snooping into your private digital life. Even if they start at the library, looking for whatever it was you did while you stopped in to get your holds, it’s not too hard (and the infrastructure is already in place) for them to intercept your traffic from private devices and scan that, without a warrant or any knowledge that it’s happening.
Additionally, I’m fairly certain the idea that the police should have a right to search computers in a library without needing a warrant, under the premise that the “public” of access means truly public access - that anyone, regardless of intent, should be able to see your sessions on the computer at the library, is a confusing of the multiple meanings of the word public. Yes, your tax dollars do support this access. If that really meant that anybody could snoop on you while you were using it, would you really use it, knowing that someone, somewhere, was probably watching? What if we posted the checkout records of everyone who had used the library that day, even if we scrubbed names and only put up library barcode numbers? Would you go checking out that book you were interested in on hate crime groups, because you wanted to know if they had recruited someone close to you? What if you were trying to psychoanalyze Pol Pot or the leader of Helter Skelter, to see why they did what they did? All someone would have to see to conclude someone was in favor of their ideas was that they checked a book out on them. This is what we call a “chilling effect” in the biz, and librarians are not fond of them. Without a guarantee of user privacy, there would be no way for anyone to research material that they weren’t prepared to publicly announce to the world their interest in.
I also want to tell the people that commented “The librarian has to live with herself, knowing that the girl would probably be alive if she hadn’t made he police wait for their warrant.” and “Bet that librarian wouldn’t be so rights-positive if it were her kid” to open up a nice can of Shut. The. FUCK. Up. Yes, it’s a tragedy. No, it’s not certain that the police would have been able to save her if they hadn’t had to wait for their warrant (and what were they doing in that time? Twiddling their thumbs?). Trotting out the idea that children trump all things, including the law, will make it supremely easy for the government to squash you and turn you into a terrorist, all in the name of protecting children. Or to intrude their noses in all of your business, just to make sure you’re not doing something that could be harmful to children. Do you really want a nanny over your shoulder ensuring everything you do is child-safe? Or rather, a safe opinion to express in the current political climate?
Oh, and, uh, be careful with the jalepenos. Some of them have salmonella.
Internationally, Russia sends warships to patrol the Arctic again, the dog-catchers of Beijing want to make sure small dogs are the way of the world there, and of much more importance, a Presidential candidate takes a tour of Iraq, and sits down with the Afghanistan president. Oh, and the Secretary of State said Iran wasn't being serious at the potential peace talks over the weekend, just raising the bar for an unprecedented third land war in Asia. Although, if the eventual President has as much trouble with who borders whom, we might end up in Australia, for all I know. Perhaps it would be better for the country to stop fighting land wars in Asia completely.
Domestically, Be afraid, citizens, be very afraid - they're coming in from Europe now. The terrorists will get to you any way they can, so the only sensible solution is to Trust Americans and nobody else... excepting, of course, when they threaten to respond slowly to an emergency call if you don't give them free coffee, or spying on peaceful anti-war and anti-death penalty groups, or treating detainees by wiring their mouths shut and conducting secret treaties to attempt to criminalize the sharing of any copyrighted information, whether for profit or non-profit, it looks like.
A woman's daughter went missing, she did not report it for more than five weeks, and has been lying to investigators about what's going on, also claiming she's been investigating herself, because she believes that people who go to the police about missing persons get hurt. This sounds like a pretty good case of checking for mental stability while also trying to find the missing child. Must be really frustrating to the investigators, though, if the girl’s mother isn’t even telling the truth to them.
Congratulations, President Nelson Mandela is off the terrorist watch list. Of course, the attempt to make political points about Iraq with this failed spectacularly.
A federal appeals court has trashed the FCC fine that accompanied Janet Jackson's quick flash at a Super Bowl halftime... a very long time ago. The glacial pace of the courts, certainly.
In energy matters, while some are blaming drilling opponents for high gas prices, or fawning over the administration's decision to remove its ban on offshore drilling, oothers are proposing a switchover that could be completed in the time it takes to drill new reserves. This sounds reasonable, assuming that you don’t beleive that liberals are deliberately trying to hold the price of gasoline high so they can force America to die economically, with a dash of “they’re also trying to make us abandon God and let in all these abominations!” crackpottery for spice.
In economic matters, "loan originators" in Florida did the same jobs as mortgage brokers, but without a license or a necessary background check, meaning several of them had rather long rap sheets, some of them with loan fraud as their convictions. So there’s turtles all the way down in these mortgage problems, it looks like. Not to mention, despite all the material about how Americans should be able to know and keep their FICO scores in the good range, there's no real way for the Average Joe of knowing what affects your score, and even the hints that appear sometimes aren’t all that great. That’s without credit card companies and other corporations deliberately manipulating your statistics to stick you with fees and charges and higher interest rates. And there’s the pesky problem of all sorts of businesses, big and small, going bankrupt, and the government is borrowing from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to fritter it away fighting several land wars in Asia. You know, stuff that tries very hard to snuff out the middle class to the benefit of the wealthy, and making he income gap even worse.
In the opinion columns, praise for Oklahoma's resolution that the Tenth Amendment is absolute and that the Feds should go back to their Constitutionally-defined powers, dismissal of the arrest warrant for the Sudanese president, more speech about the need to stay the course in Iraq, now more than ever, invoking the GOP's progressive past as a way of trying to make the current candidates look good on civil rights issues, and Senator Obama as a cult leader, as opposed to a candidate, with the potential for problems if he isn't elected in November.
There’s also realization that people didn't spend their stimulus checks where the government hoped they would, and probably won't spend them again on anything other than essentials, going after Bill'O for not being damaging enough to Jesse Jackson, (although, if we really wanted to be mean, we could mention the gaffe of misspelling education on an education segment), and Austin Cline unsure that his satire has been actually satirical, in being over the top enough to be recognized as such, a problem that the New Yorker cover failed on because a) the inherent ambiguity of satire makes interpretation context-dependent, and b) the New Yorker cover failed to provide that context, instead relying on its reputation as a left-wing bastion to get people to assume it was satirical.
Science and technology brings forward some very interesting stuff: a storm water system designed to handle Japan's typhoons and big storms, and pictures of the moon transiting Earth from 50 million kilometers away. Welcome to the blue dot, Sol-3. There’s also some inquiry to the validity of DNA testing, creating man-machine soldier hybrids (just what you need to quell mass riots and keep the population under control), and the science museum in Minnesota will be closing so that more Republican convention events can be hosted there.
Last for tonight, a pizza joint clerk knew that her parents were going to rob somewhere... imagine her surprise when the parents came to rob her store. The robbery failed, as we saw on Mr. Olbermann’s show, because the dad got decked by the other clerk.
On a more hopeful note, WikiSky, showing the stars above us all, even when Sol makes it impossible to see them. And for $160, you too can make your own self-insert episodes of Robot Chicken.
Yeah. So, the whole bed thing sounds good.
